Program Operations Manual System (POMS)

NL 00702.150 Enclosures

The vehicle for associating enclosures with notices is the enclosure remark that appears on the notice. This establishes a notice "trigger mark" that in turn informs automated mailing equipment or mailroom personnel to include the correct enclosure with the notice.

The enclosure remarks as displayed on the notice will be formatted automatically if systems or UTI generated or generated via the Enclosure Remarks Menu. If manually typed via#ENCLOSURE or #CTEC, the enclosure remarks will reflect manual entry.

M/TEXT enclosure remarks will be printed on the last page of the document.

Enclosures generated via the object program interface may or may not produce an enclosure remark display on the work screen and may display the remarks differently. For example, enclosures generated by MCS and SALT will produce enclosure remarks preceded by#ENC003; CAPS will produce enclosure remarks preceded by #CTEC. Notices passed to M/TEXT by MADCAP, and information “shells” transmitted by the AJS programs, however, will not reflect enclosure remarks on the edit screen.

Enclosure remarks generated via the Enclosure Menu Screen will produce a display on the edit screen after the identifier#CTENCLOSURE. The display will appear as semicolons and X(s) (the number of semicolons and X's depending on the number of enclosures selected and screen position of the enclosure(s) selected). If enclosures are selected from the first menu screen only, one # CTENCLOSURE identifier will appear on the work screen followed by semicolon(s) and X(s). (If only the first screen is accessed, it is not necessary to answer the prompt “Do You Want to See SSA Publications and Forms”?) If enclosures are selected from the second screen, two #CTENCLOSURE identifiers will appear on the edit screen. The first #CTENCLOSURE will be followed by semicolon(s) (and X(s) if selections were made from the first screen) and an “N”; the second #CTENCLOSURE will be followed by semicolons and an X(s). The actual enclosure name will not be displayed on the work screen when the # CTENCLOSURE model is used.

Normally it is not necessary to add an enclosure remark to a notice because models have enclosure information built into them. However, if the enclosure is needed because it is referred to in dictated language, the SSA-573 should show ENCLOSURE(S) followed by the enclosure number(s). If a UTI is modeled for enclosure generation, enter the requested UTI on the document edit screen (see NL 00702.120 for adding UTI's) and the correct enclosure remark will automatically be produced on the notice.

If desired enclosure remarks will not be produced because no corresponding enclosure generating UTI's are used in the notice, the enclosure remarks must be entered manually via the #ENCLOSURE,#CTEC or #CTENCLOSURE models.

Use #CTENCLOSURE to generate the Enclosure Remarks Menu to view the available options. The typist should check the applicable enclosure.

Use #ENCLOSURE or #CTEC when an enclosure remark is manually typed not using the Enclosure Remarks Menu. Use#ENCLOSURE or #CTEC by adding a line on the document edit screen, keying #ENCLOSURE or#CTEC at the left margin and pressing ENTER. Then follow the prompts. (The #ENCLOSURE and #CTEC models are used and function in the same way. The user's preference will determine which model is used.)

Users are encouraged to enter enclosure remarks via the#CTENCLOSURE model rather than the #ENCLOSURE or #CTEC models whenever possible. Using # CTENCLOSURE ensures that the correct mailing trigger mark(s) will be printed on the document. Manual entry via #ENCLOSURE or#CTEC requires that there be a “perfect match” between the entry and the M/TEXT data base or a divert trigger mark will be produced requiring manual intervention of mailroom personnel.

“Enclosure - x” (x = PSC) should be added to a document only when transferring the jurisdiction of the subsequent action to another PSC. For example, in certain instances overpayments are processed by a PSC other than the PSC taking the initial action. When adding enclosures in these instances, the proper enclosure for a refund envelope is “Refund envelope - x,” not “Refund envelope.” “Refund envelope - x” will correctly cause a divert in the mail room for manual inclusion of the proper PSC envelope; “Refund envelope” will be an automatic bin load for the PSC's own envelope requiring no manual intervention.

Revisit the #CTENCLOSURE Menu Screen and delete the enclosure selection (previously established via an “X”). If only one enclosure, delete the # CTENCLOSURE from the edit screen via the line command “D”.